Crossword-Solution: SAPONIFICATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Saponification | n. | The act, process, or result, of soap making; conversion into soap; specifically (Chem.), the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies; as, the saponification of ethyl acetate. |
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| SOAP-making process | 2 answers |
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Sentences with SAPONIFICATION (5)
Sources and kinds of oils and fats.--Saponification.--Manufacture and action of soap.--Glycerin, nitro-glycerin, and dynamite.
Saponification consists in separating these salts into their acids and the base glycerin; soap-making is the best illustration.
Chemists tell us that the oil from the kernels contains a green pigment which changes to yellow on saponification, and that the resin is emetic and purgative, and healing when applied as plaster.
Nierenstein [Footnote: _Ber._, 1910, 43, 628.] also succeeded in converting tannin into carboethoxytannin, the latter on saponification yielding crystalline, inactive digallic acid.
Careful saponification with excess alkali in acetone-aqueous solution at room temperature yielded a tannin very closely resembling tannin, identified as pentagalloyl glucose.